[net.movies] Identification request

srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (03/18/85)

Okay, time to strain all you semi-intelligent reference geniuses.

In 1981 (?) I saw a trailer for a movie that was apparently a cross between
soft porn and a karate film.  It featured a young girl in the lead role,
and the preview had a lot of scenes with fighting, clothes getting ripped
off, mild bondage, etc., in short, just my sort of movie.  I believe the
title was "Firecracker", but I'm not certain.

So, was it ever released?  Is it available on video-tape?

					-- Scott Turner

terryl@tekcrl.UUCP () (03/31/85)

>I recently saw a short clip on the show "At the Movies"
>with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel.  The clip showed
>Bill Murray, and Danny Breen (HBO's NNTN) among about
>4 other actors in a "typical high school room" sketch.
>As it is my habit to "flip channels" now that I have
>remote control (thank God!) I didn't catch the set-up
>for it.  But after, Gene and Roger made it sound like
>it was a movie, but never mentioned the title.  Is this
>a new movie, or screen test, or what? (HELP!)

     Actually, it wasn't a "typical high school sketch". What it was a
sketch that took place in a free clinic. The whole story is that Bill
Murray went back to a reunion of sorts of old "Second City" people, so I
don't think it was from a movie. The whole gist of the sketch was that
Bill Murray went in to the clinic, and when the nurse asked him what was
wrong, he bent over and whispered something in her ear. She couldn't hear
him, and asked him to repeat it. They went back and forth like this a
couple of times, until Murray finally just clapped when she asked him what
was wrong. She immediately blurted out "Oh, you have a social disease", and
everyone else at the clinic gave him a dirty look. I do believe this was
on one of Siskel's and Ebert's special "At The Movies" devoted to why
Bill Murray was so popular(Boy, you must have just seen a rerun of that
show. It originally aired last fall).